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What is the big deal with selfies? Like for frig sakes every time i talk to someone new they want selfies. I’m not one to take lots of pics of myself to start with and i don’t like to. I feel like screaming when asked for one. Its become a sad world when ppl need to a lot of selfies. —sick of pic requests
This article appears in Dec 11-17, 2014.
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It’s time for a paradigm shift, OP. From this point hence , in your mind “take a selfie” now refers to the Sin of Onan. And, the next time Debbie Dumbcooze announces her intent, you prepare your own camera and adopt a tone of faux outrage when she doesn’t immediately shinny out of her Lulu Lemons and begin flicking the bean. In time, this will spread, first amongst your circle of acquaintances and then globally. Perhaps Jared Diamond will even write a book about it.
Godspeed, my friend. The hopes and aspirations of humanity are riding upon you.
I had to google “flicking the bean”.
Thank you Ivan for my early morning education. So as not to seem rude, I will wash out my eyes with Javex elsewhere…
My apologies, Mr. M.
Knowledge is good, but it can be put to an evil use, by evil bastards (like moi)
I fear I may have unwittingly stimulated a new loathsome excrescence of labia porn from Montrealman, in which case gorge shall rise and lingering threads of heterosexuality shall tremble.
Sorry, everybody >: (
SELFIES & BITCH
Is there a strong parallel between the motivations prompting the taking of selfies, on the one hand and, at least for some, posting comments on Bitch on the other? I would maintain that there is but only in a restricted sense. In the case of selfies it is obvious that the subject has little to offer in the way of either thought or reflection. Taking his selfie is all that he can do.
However, in the case of posting comments on Bitch, I would argue that this is only partially true. For the vast majority of course it is the case that they have little to offer in the way of either thought or reflection. A quick reading of the comments will confirm this to be so. However, for a small elite – Montrealman and others like him come immediately to mind – both thought and reflection are the hallmarks of their comments. They embody the intellectual aristocracy of the site, if you like, and are not to be confused with the common run.
RSVP
: Ivan the Onanist (6:59AM)
It isn’t so much the zeal with which you engage in those solitary pleasures in the night which one finds offensive as much as the florrid, overwrought prose with which you shamelessly flaunt your disgusting activities. I assume those “lingering threads of heterosexuality” to which you made reference were your own. Cut them loose, man, cut them loose!
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A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
In 20 years, all these little twits who can’t get enough of themselves in ‘selfies’ will have a visual journal of aging and, in some cases, it won’t be pretty. Unfortunately, we’ll probably have hologram selfies by then.
TT, you and I have a dear friend who does epic mock duckface. I suspected CGI when I first saw it; it’s just that good. >: )
OB, consider the selfie experience your entry into the historical record of our time.
Cuz, as every duckface gal knows, “If there ain’t no picture, it didn’t happen!”.
World’s first known photographic selfie in 1839 :
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/robert-cornelius-self-portrait-the-first-ever-selfie-1839/
Err, you get asked to provide selfies on exactly what websites exactly? Leaving aside Facebook – where it’s sort of retarded *not* to have pics of yourself, the only other ones I can think of are adult dating sites. As far as the latter are concerned, if you’re actually intending to meet the other person – rather than just photographically displaying your junk and pulling your pud to *their* pics – why not provide a selfie? It can save a drive.
People on dating sites who won’t show their picture are fuglies. Are you a fugly OB?
Flicking dat bean is my line. Ivan allies steals my lines… dat was from one of my comments months ago. Imitation = flattery. Ginge minge love me. He be flickin his bean to my lines.. Dat’s where he gets his best material – from No fool.
Uh, whatever happened to just saying “no,” OB?
Jesus, for such a small word, chumps like OB have an awfully hard time spitting it out.
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